On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de> wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-12-15 at 21:08 +0100, Ferenc Kovacs wrote: > > there are two advantages for having 5.7 and having those deprecated > > messages in 5.7: > > 1, if we introduce the deprecated message in 5.6.x, some people will miss > > it (for example debian jessie has 5.6.2) > > So you want Debian to upgrade to 5.7 instead of 7.0? - I'D rather see > them on 7.0 as soon as possible. >
I don't think that they would pick up 7.0 instantly, even if there is no 5.7 but let's assume that you are right and having 5.7 will delay the 7.0 adoption by one year(as having 5.7 will prolong the support for the 5.x series by a year), I still think it would worth having a version to make the bed for 7.0. > > > 2, would allow us to stabilize 5.6 instead of keep adding stuff to it > > continuously . > > New features in 5.6 should be rejected and added to 7.0 to give users > more reasons to upgrade. > That's also an option, and now that we have a timeline for 7.0 it is a bit easier to convince people to wait for 7.0. Based on the numerous arguments that I had on the mailing list and on irc, it seems that I'm in the minority with my interpretation of https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess: https://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg71665.html -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
